Just a question: does switch nursing help (at least marginally) in retaining the supply in both breasts? Would a very sleepy baby, kept on the same breast, be even less likely to stimulate the supply in the other breast? I know the idea of switch nursing was promoted before Hartman's research, and I wonder how that would affect it... it seems to me that if the supply is low, feeding the baby off alternating breasts would help stimulate a more empty breast to produce faster and fattier... but I may be misunderstanding this. It was so easy for me to remember "too fast, same breast; too slow, switch breasts" for me to give it up until I have figured it out. I agree completely with Mary Kay's recommendation of including breast compression among the approaches to sleepy babies. I discover new things to recommend it every day: for some moms, it helps adjust a bad latch and can do a better job than massage of stimulating let-down. And in the worst cases, it is a good way to squirt a bit of milk into the poor sucker's mouth. Jo-Anne *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html